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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
The West Va. q. S. senator-Elect.

On Thursday of last week the West
Virginia legislature in special session,
elected Judge Charles James Faulkner.
.. S. Senator, to succeed Senator Cam
den. The new Senator was born in
Martinsburg, September 81, 1s47. He
accompanied his distinguished father to
France where the latter went as United
States Minister. He attended school in
Switzerland and France, and returned
home august is, 1861. one year later.
he then entered the Virginia Military
Institute, and served with the cadets in
the battle of New Market. He was af-
terward on the staff of Gen. Breckin-
ridge. and was Aid to Gen. Wise at the
surrender of Appomattox. Thence re-
turning home. he studied law under his
father, and entered the University of
Virginia in 1866. Graduating two years
later, he was admitted to the Berkeley
bar. He was elected Judge October is,
1880. The Judge has telegraphed the
President of the Senate, accepting the
election
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12

The annual meeting and banquet of
the Loyal Legion, Ohio commandery,
was held at the Bernet Wednesday
night of last week. Gen W t Sherman
was elected commander, succeeding ex
President Hayes, who declined reelec-
ton.
The case of DIR Darby, of Lebanon, o.,
who refusek to give expert testimony in
the common pleas court of Warren
county without an extra fee, and who
was held for contempt, was taken to
the circuit court and the action Of the
lower court sustained. The case will be
taken to the supreme court of the state.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has par
doned John R Kelly. member of the
Florida legislature, and Charles A Kelly
his brother, chairman OF the Democratic
executive committee and of the board
of commissioners of Taylor county, who
were under a 20 years sentence for a.
murder committed in Dawson, Ga, IS
years ago,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
A Close Guess on n Hog.

The Rochester Union says that Hiram
Sibley Of that city is the best hog guesser in
western New York, and proves it by telling
how he once visited farm where hog had
just been killed, and was asked to guess on its
weight. After due deliberation and estima-
ton he said slowly: THAT hog weighs ex.
actly two-hundred- -and-sixty -one-pounds
-and-a--quarter." The hog was placed
upon the scales. 1t weighed 2612z-half d
pound over Mr.. Sibley's guess! He was
thoroughly disgusted, and said: @How could
/ have been so much Mistaken Presently
his eyes lighted up with triumph, as he de-
tected a stonein the hogs mouth designed to
keep the jaws distended while the carcass was
being dressed. Take out that plug," said he,
"and you will find it weighs precisely half a
pound" "And it did, said The Union, "to q
grainw-New York Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
Use of Water in Transplanting.

Some one has said that he WAS always
most successful in planting trees, vines.
etc. during "Soteh MIST" the meaning
of which is that wetting the roots fsvors
the growth of the young tree. This fact
has come under the observation of every
one who has had even limited expert
ence in such work. Perfect planting
consists in planting the tree as nearly
as possible in the same condition as that
in which it was before removal, putting
the soil in close contact with every root,
large and small A bucketful or two of
water poured around the tree when al
most done planting facilitates this, the
application of pressure with the foot,
forcing the soft soil into every vacancy
among the roots. With the use of water
in this way planting may be performed
much later in the season than many per-
sons with but limited experience supt
pose. Even the middle of May Is not
too late, if the trees have been taken
up before the growth has begun. One
case is called to mind where 300 trees
we're planted from the 10th to the 18th
of May; and not single tree failed to
grow. No one need be afraid of plant
ing late in the season if plenty of water
is given. And it is to be remembered
that in putting off planting in spring Gas
some may be inclined to do) a whole
seasons growth is lost. Spring plant
ing prevents this loss of a seasons
growth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12

SOME popular errors about Lincoln's
assassination are corrected by Silas
Owen, an eye witness of the crime, in g
letter to the Albany Journal. Mr.. Ow-
en- asserts that VIM. r. Flood. then a
masters mate in the navy and now an
auditors clerk at Washington. was the
first person to reach the Presidents side
after the shooting. Flood and Owen
we're the tfst on the stage after Booth
had passed out of the left exit where he
came in contact with Laura Keene, the
actress, and struck at her with his knife
ripping the sleeve of her gown from the
elbow to the wrist. Flood climbed up
the scroll work on the outside of the
boxes and found Lincoln sitting in his
chair with his head dropped forward so
that the chin rested on his breast. Flood
lifted the President from the chair and
laid him on his back with his head rest
ing on Floods knee. A number of per-
sons had now reached the box, among
them Laura KeeDe. The wound was
not discovered till the head was raised
from Floods knee. leaving nearly
table spoonful of brain In the palm of
his hand. Laura Keene's dress was not
"dabbled with blood" because no blood
flowed from the wound till the body
was taken from the theater. This story
disposes of the statement that Miss
Keene was the first to reach Lincoln's
si0e after the shot was fired.
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A Story Told II. w. Reecher.

The other day lin 1871 czme through
Loudonyille, O., and L WIS forcibly remind
ed of my stay there when on my first trip
out west. We stopped late at night and spent
Sunday there. There were two coach loads
of US, and the little two story brick tavern
was nearly full when we arrived. The best
they could do for my brother Charles and
myself was to give us couple of Shake
downs" in the dining room. We slept late
Sunday morning, but finally waking up COM
menced to talk. l said: "Charles, I'll bet you
l can tell what they had at this hotel for din
ner yesterday" @What was it?" he asked.
"Roast beef" replied, basing my Judgment
on a stale sort of odor that pervaded the
room mo, you're mistaken" said he, shak-
ing his head and shifting at the covering of
his bed; 'it was mutton" We both stoutly
maintained our respective propositions, and,
falling to a vigorous smelling of our bed
clothes, found the landlord had given us a
couple of table cloths for bedspreads, and
Charles had cot the mutton cloth and the
beef.-New York Tribune
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DON'T.

Don't marry the old folks,ner let them
marry you.
Don't marry much above or below
you social sphere.
Don't marry one in whom you have
not perfect confidence.
Don't forget that mutual forbearance
is the tOuch-stone of domestic happiness.
Don't marry unless you love, and do
not love unless guided by reason and
judgment.
Don't be any more devoted and atten.
tive before marriage than you intend to
be after marriage.
Don't trine with your affections or
those of others by courting where you
do not intend to marry.
Don't marry coquette OF fatterer.
The former has no heart. and the latter
but hollow and deceptive one.
Don't try to win love by flattery un-
less you are willing to continue fiatter>
ing all through you married life to pref
serve love.
Don't expect that love will come after
marriage where it does not exist before
marriage, for all experience proves that
it will not.
Don't marry contrary to your intui-
tiOns and incliuations TO please friends
or suitor There can be no domestic fe-
licity without congeniality.
Don't try to win affection by making
frequent or costly presents. A love
which must be won in that way is mer>
cenery, selfish and short-lived.
Don't marry for fear it will be your
last opportunity to escape being an old
maid or old bachelor. AS well grasp
straw to save yourself from drowning.
Don't marry for beauty alone, for it
may perish in single night, and unless
accompanied by loveliness of spirit, it is
only mantle of vanity, self6shness and
Ill temper.
Don't rush into marriage In your
teens. Natures time and ways are the
test, and the duties of marriage require
a full and mature development of ali the
functions of body and mind
Don'r marry those that are drilled in
the tactics of fashion. The love of
themselves is the only love of which
they are capable. Fashion is social
plague, carrying certain death to all the
warm and generous sympaties OF true
connubial affection.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
odor of the chinese Quarters.

After the prenatural activity of the Chi
nese, which makes upon the observer the
same impression produced 10y the study of one
of Dore's sketches of the lost souls of Dante,
forever toiling in the gloom of the neither
world, the next thing that strikes the stranger
is the peculiar odor that fills the air; and that
resembles a combination of bad tobacco
and the pungent fumes from the punk that
the American small boy uses on the Fourth of
july to light his fire crackers. Mingled with
this is the smell Of unclean streets, the whole
making a combination not easily forgotten.
The Able Huck, who Travelled in China in
native dress, declared that he could readily
deceive the people in regard to his nation
ality, as he spoke the language perfectly, and
as long exposure had stained his skin to a
copper color; but the Chinese dogs always
barlled at his heels, because they detected the
absence of the national odor. This smell is
due partly to the coolies custom Of sleepling
in his clothes, but mainly to the fact that
the constant smoking Of opium and tobacco,
and the preparation Of food at open fires, sub
ject the dweller in Chinese house TO per-
petual fumigation. Hence the smoky odor
clings to him, and not even the breezes of the
Pacific have power to dislodge it.-George H.
Fitch in Cosmopolitan.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
A yerv Young Merchant,

Some odd facts are occasionally found Just
beneath most commonplace surface. Hap
pening in large hat and cap establishment
wholesale-the other day, inquired for the
proprietor. A boy about Ii years old was
pointed out to me- "But want to see the
proprietor" said. II am the proprietor of
this isstore-what can do for youl" exclaimed
the lad. And, sure enough, investigation
proved that he was the actual owner of the
establishment, and nominally the head of the
firm. His father had owned the store, but,
having other business as well and not wishing
to carry them both i'll his own name, present
ed the hat and cap establishment to his IL
year old son and placed the boy in charge.
OF course the father still exercises general
control, but the legal head of the firm, signer
Of checks, keeper of the combination of the
safe and man of authority is the son, un-
doubtedly the youngest Wholesale merchant
Chicago.-Chicago Herald.
Embarrassing to n StenOgrapher. :
One OF tho most embarrassing things a
court stenographer can be subjected TO some
times is 10 be suddenly asked 10 read lot of
cross questioned testimony over which there
has arisen dispute, and the answers and
questions OF which, together with the inter-
jected remarks Of wrangling counsel, have
been taken down al lightning speed. Under
such circumstances ones writing Is little moro
than a scroll, and TO decipher and read 10
quickly at moments notice Is by no means
easy. The most important thing In this, as
in all kinds Of reporting, Is TO keep cool and
collected head. l have seen some pftiable
cases Of first class stenographers who weD
40 ratified on being asked TO read what they
had written that the request had to be with
drawn out Of charity to them.-Globe-Dem
Crat ----
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
AIASI


Alas for all high hopes and all desiresi
Like leaves in yellow autumn time they fall.
Alas for prayers and psalms, and loves pure
fires;
ons silence and one darkness ends them all
Alas for all mankind-sad, heeting racel
Alas my love, for you and me alas!
Some day death holds us in q close embrace;
We, too, like all the rest, from earth must pass.
Alasl TO think we shall forget some hours
Whereof the memory like loves planet glows-
Forget them, as the year her withered flowers
Forget them, as the sun forgets the rose
Our keenest rapture, our most deep despair,
Our hopes, our breads, our laughter and our
tears,
Shall be no more at all upon the air
No more at all through all the endless years
We shall be mute beneath the grass and dew
We shall be very mute there, in deaths state
And you will be as i, and as you
One sameness shed upon us, and one fate
Philip Bourke Marston in The Independents
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A DRY GOODS STORE RESTAURANT
Overrun with Satisfied Bargain Hunters.
The Hungry Shop Girls


The Hungry shop Girls
Did YOU ever wonder how it comes about
that when the all conquering dry goods store
adds the caterer TO the list of its victims and
opens s restaurant, one never sees the shop
girl there at meall
The dry goods restaurant is the stamping
ground for the city's hungry women 1t
abounds in racks for their bundles, in high
chairs for the babies they bring in tow, in
chocolate and buns for the universal sweet
tooth Of the shopper and her tribe. The res
taurant runs over with the satisfied bargain
hunter. The bargain seller must eat, hut
where, or when or howl That is her secret
for the most part, not yours or mine. But
now and then, in her moods Of extravaganza,
when the wearer of the black apron and
dangling scissors treats herself TO a bit Of
lunch, does she parade herself at those round
tables before the eyes of her late customers in
the garb of a shop girl, think youi Not if
she is New York girl; no.
Three minutes in the dressing room and
what wonders they work She adjusts her
wrap; she perches her hat above her curls;
she pins on the useless and provoking lace
veil; she settles her gloves; she makes ready
for a brisk spring campaign. Then-she
phSSco OOHn Tile Std4IS anu
stirring foot out of doors she loses herself on
the crowded scene of action among the throng
of the women buyers, a lady of leisure,
among her kin and her kind. She has forgot
ten the counter; she thinks not of the trouble
some @cash." She has her brown paper par
Gel with the rest. She looks, as she orders her
stew or her fry, as if she had bought two or
three spring gowns before sitting down in her
place, and might look at bonnets when her
appetite was satisfied.
How do knowl I've seen Cinderella be-
hind the counter, the princess in the restaur-
ant the other side Of the portiere few feet
away, and the backward Transformation to
matching ribbons and handing down boxes
when the ball was done
And yet they wonder why she doesn't alb
jure the long hours and the lean pocketbook
to do housework in the American family that
waits and longs for the American girll She
is too thoroughly one of her own country
women. She will sell you a lace handker-
chief, 10 may be, but she will sit at your side
your equal before you have taken the bundle
home.-New York Letter in Kansas City
,Tournal
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And This in Boston.

Boston people will find It difficult to be-
lievo that the following advertisement ap-
peared in The Evening Post OF Boston in
l142: "fo be sold by the Printer Of this Paper,
the very best Negro Woman in this Town,
who has had the Smallpox and the Measles;
Is as hearty as Horse, as brisk as Bird,
and will work like Beaver. August 2S,
1742."-Atlanta Constitution.
Berlin's Sewing Machine Industry.
The sewing machine industry has become so
improbable that the largest manufacturers In
Berlin are reducing their operations and turn
ing their attention TO othor trades. One firm
has reduced Its force Of 1000 TO 400 men, and
has begun to manufacture automatic weigh.
Ing machines. York Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
Special Judgments for Monte Carlo,

Last year there was rail way accident at
Monte Carlo. This was poisted out to be a
special Judgment against gambling. 1t is
somewhat against this special judgment doc
tIine that Monte Carlo seems to have been
almost the only place on the Riviera that was
not injured by the earthquake, while in one
place, where the people flocked into the
church, the roof fell on them This immunity
from danger at Monte Carlo seems to have
arisen from the place being built upon rock.
There is the same formation at Villefranche
and the circuit of the bay entirely escaped,
not teacup being being troken.-London
Tf11th
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12
An Anxious Rodent.

Apropos OF rats, Liverpool paper relhtes
an incident In connection with a wreck of the
Cornish coast Tho captain was the last 10
leave tho ship, and ns he dropped into the
life boat rat ran along the rope and laid
bold OF tho captains collar, and the captain
turned round, and, noticing with what ton.
acity the rat held on, said; @Poor d., like
myself You arc making an effort for dear life;
como along" and both were safely landed
Chicago Tines ----, -,
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sDoIlinr the Rabv.

Common sense indicates II babies were not
rocked and coddled they would never have
occasion 10 grieye or lament when these at
tentions were withdrawn. Commence rightly
and save yourself an immense amount of in
convenience or worry. A little determine
ton, great amount Of patience and it is ac-
complished. The child will not only learn
that he is 10 go quietly into his crib TO sleep,
but also the realization win gradually steal
into his little mind that his wish cannot al
ways be an object before which parents, rela-
tives everybody must bow assent. Try the
itself into commissions Atlanta ConStitu-
lion
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12

EMERSON says that all men are poets,
even though they are utterly unaware
of the fact. A flag waving above the
battered walls of some old fort far away
from the beaten paths of civilization,
will set mems hearts to throbbing faster
and bring an exultant flush to their
cheeks. That is the way the poetry of
the swelling memories the flag recalls
shows itself. And at this reason are
not all men poets? Are not natures
green banners fluttering in triumph
from every tree and bush telling that
the long, fierce battle with winter is
over and life is victorious over cold and
death! Her flags are streaming from
all the hilltops and there is no valley
that lies between that is not glsddened
by their brightness. And over the
hearts of the men who behold this beau
ty, and all of them understand some
thing of its spiritual significance. there
comes harmony that is unwritten
poetry.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-05-12

All trains daily except sunday.
Pullmnn's Palace Buffet or Hotel Sleep
ing Cars through without change from steu-
benville east to Philadelphia and New York;
west to Column bus, Cincinnati, Louisville, CHI
cogo, Indianapolis and at. Louis.
For through tickets, baggage checks. sleep
Ing car accom- m odations, ana any further iHN
apply to JOHN q. TOMLINSON,
Ticket Agent at Pan-Handle station. foot OF
street, or q: city ticket oface, under
MoLure House, Wheeling.
JAMES MCCREA,
Manager, Pittsburgh.
E.A. FORD.
Gen1 Pas and Tkt Ag't, PittsbuIg gh, Pa.
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THE Canton (o.l Repository publishes

THE Canton (Ol Repository publishes
the story that Mrs. George Moore, of
Carrolltou, O., a large. fsshy woman,
advanced In years. has for the past four
months felt a reptile crawling in her
intestines, causing her intense pain. She
can locate its travels and often can
catch it under the skin and can hold it
until the wiggling becomes too painful.
Medicines and purgatives are unsvail+
ing, the reptile leaving the stomach and
entering the bowels, and 1t is said that
when it enters the stomach for drink
the lap lap can be heard distinctly
across the room. Mrs. Moore prays for
death to end her sufferings and asks
that the monster be removed from her
body after death. The case is said to be
creating great interest in the region in
which the sufferer resides.
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PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY,
4 (oPRRATING)
Cleveland a Pittsburgh n. r
East and North to Pittsburgh and CLEVELAND.

Condenoed timetable OF passenger trains
corrected 10 Jan. 81. 'S7, Central standard Time.
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CLEVELAND, LORAIN & WHEELING
~ RAILRoAD-TIME SCHEDULE.

In effect Nov IA, 's6.-New Standard, Goth
Meridian time, which Is 2S minutes slswer
than Columbus time.
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Time table for east and west corrected to
Jan. 81 1887. Trains leave PsL>HAndle sta
tIon, Wheeling, foot OF Eleventh street, near
public Ianding-Central standard time
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Ali trains daily except Sunday.
Trains leave Uheleland forW Wheeling at u 10
p m II l0pm, arriving at lS P m and IS am.
Z. A. FORD,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Ag't, Pittsburgh Pa.
JAMES MCCREA,
General Manager, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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DUrTSBURGH, CINCINNATI s. ST.
i Louis RAuRoAD-Pan-Ha Handk Route.
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"ANTEOI Ladies' and sentlemen to
w AIN 1bUi take light, pleasant ems
ployment At their own homes distance no
ohJectionG work sent by mail; 81 to s. per day
can be quietly made; no canvasslng. Please
address at one GLOBE MFe, Co., Boston Mass.
Box h31s,
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OUR BABY'S FIRST YEAR, by MarIsu
~ IIRrlnud, also containing much valuable
informattoni rs page book; sent on receipt of
2Noent stamp by Reed & Carnriok, Mercantile
Exchange Building New York.
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GOING SOUTH.

OSCAR TOWNSEND, WI. II CIRCUIT,
Gen1 Manager. Genl FL q Pass. Agt.